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Keri, it's working now in Chrome and FireFox Thanks!

Paul,

I'm using and have been using Chrome as well, but not seeing any pagination still. Just checked.

Also, since the beginning of the year, I haven't had any Chrome cookies issues with the QA section until I just was trying to reply to you. It kept asking me to Login and then would boot me back out to the Moz Home page. Very strange. I guess that is still a lingering issue and glad to know I'm not the only one.

PS - This reply is coming from IE10 as FireFox and Chrome kept kicking me out of the QA area. Also, the pagination isn't displaying in IE10 as well for Users.

Patrick

Ahh, yes! No problem about pointing it out either. I loved that feature to see who else is out there in the Moz world

Thanks for the reply and passing along the note, Keri!

Hey! You can look into the software WebMeUp for tracking rankings through projects/URLs and lots of keywords. I'm using Moz, OSE and WebMeUp for various reporting and monitoring. You may find it useful for this particular task or something else as I have.

Cheers! - Patrick

Curious to know if anyone else noticed that Moz stopped showing most of the active community users http://moz.com/community/users. It was nice to see who's who from visiting profiles and try to connect with them via email or see their websites, etc.

There used to be pagination at the bottom. Why did they stop?

Hi Syed,

There is no exact answer to your question as if you ask 10 SEOs, you very well may get 10 different answers. As Google hasn't defined this ration, the answers and opinions on this subject are widely debated and subjective to the industry.

That being said, a good anchor text ratio to consider is roughly 30% branded anchor text, 70% non-branded keyword anchor text. This is information we've looked into and had discussions about with other SEOs and a source of some quality research and data on this can be found here http://sundayseo.net/penguin-2-0-what-should-your-anchor-text-ratios-be/ and another great article here http://moz.com/blog/anchor-text-distribution-avoiding-over-optimization, which does a fantastic job of breaking it down even further. So, a solid anchor text ration should be 7:3 to emulate the Moz blog written by Geoff.

Hope this was a helpful answer! - Patrick

Conor,

Yoast is a good plugin and I know a lot of people use it, but honestly, I find the All In One SEO Pack to be awesome! We use it on almost every website we develop. Check it out and install it to play around with the setup. Here are some resource links to review. We love it and hope this helps in your search! - Patrick

https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/users-guide-for-all-in-one-seo-pack/

Thanks for that, Miriam! That Google Map Forum is something new to me, so I'll be poking around in there tonight as we're in the midst of developing a website for large shopping center and integrating a custom Google Map for their tenants. Having a little issue here and there, so this forum may come in handy! - Patrick

Hey Ruben,

You may want to clear your cache for your browser, then restart the browser and log back in to Facebook. This is just a thought based on my test. I threw your link in my FB page and it seems to be loading the content and you can select 1 of 2 thumbnails. Have a look at the screenshot below.

See if that helps! Hope it does  
Patrick

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I agree with Andy on this one. A link to an inner page + Home page would be beneficial as long as it won't leave the visitor scratching their head about why they are now on a certain inner page in the site.

Keep the anchor text your brand name, if possible and if you have that choice. Otherwise a "Click here" or "Visit Website" will be helpful, just not touching on the branded link aspect Google would enjoy seeing.

Great question, Ruben as I'm sure a lot of others wonder about that too. - Patrick

That is a strange occurrence. I just searched "jimmie Daniel road georgia" in Google and hit enter. The results ALL show "Jimmy Road" and even Google offered up "Did you mean "jimmy road..." as an option to search. Even Zillow has "Jimmy" as the street name, not like they help your localized search, but Zillow is a massive real estate site, so you'd think they would have it right or at least updated as well in their database. Check out the screen snippet I pulled.

For now, I wouldn't change anything you are doing. Just keep an eye on it as from a searchers perspective, Google is still trying to show them a relevant result option of "Did you mean jimmy road...". Hope this was a helpful answer! - Patrick

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Hi Ruben! And Happy Friday to you, too!

It's never a bad idea to republish or update a blog post. We done it before and not really seen any adverse affects to anything we are doing. Before we went through that process (and before we had a Moz account) we hit the search engines and read articles about how to handle old content or to add to older posts.

As some references and reading enjoyment, take a look at Hubspot's post here "The Complete Guide to Updating and Republishing Outdated Blog Content" and also Entrepreneur.com had a recent article I bookmarked on this subject a couple months ago, "Your Blog's Secret Weapon: Old Content". As many industries change, so will the content, so going back to republish or update an article is a wise decision to keep your content as relevant as possible AND with Google being keen on displaying the best results, your old content won't have a chance if the information isn't accurate to the times.

Hope this was helpful! Cheers - Patrick

Thanks and assumed that was the case, Chris. Actually, I emailed them from their contact form, then saw a direct email link on that Contact page, so I emailed Tarek as well. He replied by email and also then called our office to apologize for the inconvenience and let us know the link was removed and we have confirmed this.

Now, if every other webmaster would respond this quickly and politely, it would make our jobs a LOT less frustrating. Thanks for responding Kevin and Oren! - Patrick

Follow up: I found the directory site owner/managers, so I sent requests to them as well for the removal which is http://www.hubac.com/contact/

Any other ideas here Moz members?

We just found a backlink for our site from a brand spanking new, week-old directory site. We did not create this, so aside from submitting a request to remove it through their contact form (which we already did), do you have any other tips to get this removed beside submitting a disavow request.

http://seo-company-in.com//United_States/North_Carolina/whiteboard-creations-cary-and-raleigh-nc-web-design-and-seo-service-267

Also, check to make sure your company isn't listed as well without your permission (not providing a functioning link back for them, but enter in their domain to check it out.

Let me know your thoughts. - Patrick

Hey Federico! Thanks for your note about the images linking from a site to the author's site with a NoFollow link. We thought that was the answer, but wanted to get confirmation and appreciate you reassuring our gut feeling.

I may have not been too clear in my question, but we aren't trying to rank images for SEO as we know the original authors will get top priority (hopefully).

Per the stock photo accounts, we have spoken with the copyright teams from iStock/Getty and 123RF and they are of the same nature. If we, the company, buy images on behalf of our clients, then we are not allowed to send the client the raw file or a copy of the raw file, as that would break their copyright rules. However, we can use that said image for any number of websites or blogs as we choose since we have the royalty free rights to that file. It really is such a grey area, but when we talk with clients we inform them that if they want any images for the website/blog and wish to use those same images for any print material (brochures, magazine ads, flyers, etc) then we ask them to open an account with the respective site and purchase the images, so they hold the rights. We then upload the images and then delete from our systems. It's too much of a hassle.

I will review the link you shared for the FlickR CC images. Thanks for sharing that! - Patrick

Hey Noah! I second what Chris pointed out that software can accomplish different goals or take some time to learn, but HootSuite is awesome and another we use is called Buzz Bundle. Both will get the job done you are looking for, however, keep in mind the costs for each "Team Member" (your Admins) as you may be required to pay for additional Users in the account. Both have free trials, so definitely get in there and check them out and play around with their settings, user management, etc.! Hope this was a good answer! - Patrick

I've been looking at large image packages through iStock, Getty, Fotolia and 123RF, but before spending a bunch of money, I wanted to get some of your feedback on Creative Commons images.

Should be worried that something found on Google Images > Search Tools > Usage Rights section can be used without issue or legal threats from the big image companies so long as they are appropriately referenced?

AND will using these types of images and linking to the sources have any affect on SEO efforts or make the blog/website look spammy in Google's eyes because we need to link to the source?

How are you using Creative Commons images and is there anything I should be aware of in the process of searching, saving, using, referencing, etc?

Patrick

Tony,

Miriam NAILED it! Take her advice and run with it and tackle this large project by chipping away little by little as she mentions. We're in the midst of starting this process with a client who wants/needs to rank in several very small towns in NC, but also 2 bigger cities nearby and the one they are headquartered. It's a daunting task, but planning it out, setting those expectations with the owner(s) and executing items from the plan in a way that doesn't overwhelm you or the business owner or their staff/customers will get you some great results in the end, while playing nicely with Google.

You won't rank locally as NAP (Name Address Phone) won't be apart of each page since there is no physical office location within each of the cities/towns you mentioned. So, don't count on your local listings with Google Maps, however, get some great content in the pages, design them a little differently too and another item I'd like to add to Miriam's task list, would be to create some blog articles around the coupons or specials you are running, which you can link back and forth from the company blog. Google will see you aren't just trying to slap up 40 pages and leave them, rather, they will see you are building the pages and content for your searchers/potential customers, then developing some ongoing content around a specific landing page. You would be creating value and more relevance for you searcher and Google is now seeing this.

All the best in your project! - Patrick

Hi Edmond,

Unfortunately, you are correct about it being a pain in the butt to get customers/patients to submit POSITIVE reviews on those mentioned websites, including a ton of other review sites. Isn't it funny, people have no problem going to those sites, creating an account, and then leaving NEGATIVE reviews?

We see it all the time. I'm guilty of it, however, I do try to leave positive reviews when I'm truly amazed at the service or product I receive.

We work with dentists and eye doctors and other categories where it is mainly B2C, so we've implemented in many of those businesses a process to create small business cards which have direct instructions about how easy it is to leave a review online and how much we appreciate it OR our clients offer an incentive. "Leave us a review at Google and receive a free X-rays at your next dental exam." It does work really well as the patient is able to hear the offer at the office and then take home instructions about how to do it.

We have an eye doctor who keeps their iPad open to Google the whole day and his front desk staff asks patients to leave reviews on their Google+ page if they have a Gmail account. If not, then the staff offers to walk them through getting them a Google account.

It's a combined effort on the business owner, his staff and the internet marketing consultant/company to work together to figure out the best plan and educate their clients/patients.

Here's a GREAT article in whole which I recommend you read, but more importantly to your question, read this section http://moz.com/blog/top-20-local-search-ranking-factors-an-illustrated-guide#nineteen. You will see that Google gathers the other major review sites' reviews (you'll see in the 2nd screenshot of the review site links). So, yes Google is very important to get reviews, but they are also pulling from many other sites.

I hope this was a good answer and that you find these ideas helpful in your efforts! - Patrick